PayPal Can’t Shed Content Creators’ Affiliate Hijacking Claims

PayPal Inc. failed to convince a federal judge to toss claims from content creators who said the company’s Honey browser extension unlawfully redirected their affiliate marketing commissions.

In their second amended complaint, the content creators showed sample terms from their contracts with merchants that showed they were contractually entitled to commissions when consumers buy things from the merchants’ websites through their affiliate links, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday. The content creators also adequately pleaded that Honey’s supplantation of their affiliate identifications could violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Judge Beth Labson Freeman ...